Nana Kojo Beedu V, Chief of Gomoa-Asebu, near Winneba Junction, and Life Patron of the town's Educational Development Fund, has called on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's), corporate bodies and individuals to consider extending financial support to the Fund to ensure the attainment of its objectives.
Nana Beedu made the call at the maiden meeting of the executive members of the Fund at Gomoa-Asebu to adopt achievable strategies to move the scheme forward.
He said the scheme, launched a week ago is designed to assist all brilliant and promising basic school leavers in the town who really needed financial support to pursue further secondary and tertiary education.
Nana Beedu said such assistance would enable initiators of the Fund to train enough patriotic and hardworking future leaders for the rapid socio-economic development of Asebu.
Nana Beedu said investigations conducted revealed that most parents in the community with more than 5,000 population were jobless, adding that the minor agricultural ventures they were pursuing were not yielding dependable economic returns, thus making it difficult for them to cope with the cost of their children's education.
He noted that farming activities in the area were often hampered by erratic rainfall over the years, hence the appeal to all well wishers to help build the Education Fund the people had initiated.
Nana Beedu expressed the hope that the fund, if properly developed and maintained would help provide the youth in the community with gainful employment and prevent them from going wayward.
Source: GNA
